Peter Bieri (author)

Peter Bieri ( born June 23, 1944 in Bern, pseudonym: Pascal Mercier ) is a Swiss philosopher and writer. When Pascal Mercier, he was with his successful novel Night Train to Lisbon known.

Childhood and youth

Bieri grew up in a suburb of Bern in a lower middle class family. His father was a composer. In his childhood, he read the 53 novels of Karl May and loved to play football. In the final game of the 1954 World Cup, he looked for the first time television. The school, he took off at the Bern Church Grammar School field. In high school he learned Latin, Greek and Hebrew.

Academic Career

After graduating Bieri began studying classical philology in Bern, the study broke off and went for a love relationship to London. In London and in Heidelberg, he studied philosophy, English literature and Indology. In Heidelberg he received his doctorate in 1971 with Dieter Henrich and Ernst Tugendhat with a thesis on the time in which he comprehensively dealt with the experience of time of the English philosopher John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart. This was followed by studies at the University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin and the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem. In 1983 he was appointed to Bielefeld. Then Bieri worked as a research assistant at the Department of Philosophy, University of Heidelberg.

Bieri was co-founder of the Research Program cognition and brain of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The focus of his research are philosophical psychology, epistemology and moral philosophy. From 1990 to 1993 he was Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Marburg; from 1993 taught Peter Bieri philosophy at the Free University of Berlin at the Department of Philosophy of Language as a successor of Ernst Tugendhat. 2007 Bieri pulled back early in the academic retirement, angered by the university system. The anger Bieri on the situation at the universities is reflected in the following quote: " When I look at who are the heroes on TV or in the newspapers, I see only facades with nothing behind it. The same can be observed at the universities that are ruined at the time by the perspective of management consulting. We constantly get questionnaires: How many guest professorships have you noticed? How many third-party funds you have raised? A dictatorship of busyness. All of these things have nothing to do with the authentic motivation of a scientist. "

Work as a philosopher

The best known is Bieri's book The Craft of freedom with the core thesis:

In the article " What makes the consciousness to a puzzle? " Argues Peter Bieri against the idea that neuroscience could explain the phenomenon of " awareness ". Even if we learn more and more about the neural correlates of consciousness, yet we do not know why these processes are accompanied by consciousness. Bieri 's argument is similar here to that of Thomas Nagel, Joseph Levine and David Chalmers. See also: Bieri trilemma.

In a mirror - essay, he responds to a previously released dispute between the neurobiologists Gerhard Roth and the moral theologian Eberhard shock Hoff. Roth reported that correlations between neural processes and a decision will be demonstrated, before man of the decision is conscious. This has been proved that human decisions are solely dependent on the genes and neural processes that are determined. Due to early childhood events and experiences of all life years

Bieri criticized this argument as a category error: " we think of someone who dismantled an image to find out what it is ... It never goes well when we answer questions that arise on the one level of description to another. "

2006 awarded him the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen with the Lichtenberg- medal. Bieri 2010 received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lucerne.

Working as a writer

Under the pseudonym, Pascal Mercier Peter Bieri has published four novels: Perlmann's Silence (1995), The Piano Tuner (1998), Night Train to Lisbon (2004, filmed 2013 ) and Lea ( 2007). In 2006 he received the Marie -Luise Kaschnitz Prize for his literary work.

Works

Philosophical works

Published under the name Peter Bieri

As author

  • Time and time experience. Exposure of a problem area. Dissertation, 1971, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1972.
  • Philosophical Psychology. Considerations for concept formation. In: New books in Philosophy 11 (1977 ), pp. 26-81.
  • Nominalism and inner experience. In: Journal of Philosophical Research 36 (1982 ), pp. 3-24.
  • Being and appearance of objects. Are things different color? In: Journal of Philosophical Research 36 (1982 ), pp. 531-552.
  • Evolution, cognition and cognition. Doubts about the evolutionary epistemology. In: William Lütter field ( ed.): Transcendental or evolutionary epistemology? University Press, Darmstadt 1987, p 117-147.
  • The craft of freedom. About the discovery of his own will. Hanser, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-596-15647-5.
  • What remains of the analytical philosophy? In: German Journal of Philosophy, 2007, Book III, pp. 333-344.
  • How do we want to live? Residence, St. Pölten, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7017-1563-3.
  • Write, and understand a story. Audio book, Complete Media, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8312-6483-4.
  • A way of life: On the diversity of human dignity. Hanser, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-4462-4349-1.

As editor

  • Analytical philosophy of mind. Hain, Königstein / Ts. 1981 ( new editions in 1993 and 2007).
  • Analytical Philosophy of Knowledge. Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1987.

Literary work

Published under the pseudonym, Pascal Mercier:

  • Perlmann's Silence. Novel, Albrecht Knaus, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-442-72135-0.
  • The piano tuner. Novel, Albrecht Knaus, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-442-72654-9.
  • Night Train to Lisbon. Novel, Hanser, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-446-20555-1.
  • Lea. Amendment, Hanser, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-446-20915-2.

Articles and speeches

  • What makes consciousness a riddle? (rtf, 56 kB), published in " brain and consciousness " (ed. W. Singer), spectrum of science. Heidelberg 1994, pp. 172-180.
  • How would it be to be formed? (pdf, 71 kB), speech by Peter Bieri at the Pedagogical University of Berne via formation of 4 November 2005.
  • How do we want to live? What does it mean to have control over our own lives? Time online, magazine Life, June 7, 2007, No. 24
  • Feel to recognize. What makes consciousness a riddle? Time online, magazine life 30 August, 2007, No. 36
  • Ensemble of skills. What makes us people? Time online, magazine Life, October 25, 2007, No. 44
  • Bridge to the strange spirit. What makes the language with us? Time online, magazine life 19 December, 2007, No. 52
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